Myxoma

scarp, but more acute pain, which I can see she was affected by it. After the pains gradually got worse, my mom finally decided to go to the hospital and what happened next scared me. My mom found out that she had a heart tumor, called Left Atrial Myxoma. My Initial thoughts were worse than my worst nightmares; having those thoughts were too much for me to handle. I would spend nights and days thinking about what is actually going to happen to someone I love with all my heart, the person who took

Clinicopathological spectrum of mitral valve myxoma Aguilar C, Espinoza-Alva D, Chavez J, Segura P. Abstract: Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary tumors of the heart. Although these tumors have been reported in all cardiac chambers, myxomas arising from heart valves are extremely rare. Herein, we report a new case of a patient with mitral valve myxoma, as well as review 89 reported cases of these tumors in the literature. Mitral valve myxomas often occur in middle age patients, with slight

function and causes pulmonary congestion 1 • Most atrial myxomas arise from the atrial septum, but some originate in the posterior wall, anterior wall or the appendages 1 CLASSIFICATION • By location 3, 1, 2 ○ Left atrial myxoma - 75-90% of myxomas are estimated to originate in the left atrium 1, 2, 3 ○ Right atrial myxoma - tends to be more solid and immobile than left atrial myxoma, with a wider attachment to the septum or atrial wall 1 • Atrial myxomas can

Stromal tumors of the ovary include thecoma and fibroma, yet as differentiation between these two types may be difficult, the term fibrothecoma has emerged. The exact incidence of fibrothecoma is unknown, although they have been described as rare ovarian neoplasms1. Here we present an unusual clinical manifestation of ovarian fibrothecoma with abdominal distension in a young female. Grossly, the resected left ovarian mass measured 16x16x10 cm and right ovarian mass measured 3.5x2x0.4 cm. Cut surface

A murmur is a series of vibrations of variable duration that is able to hear with a stethoscope at the chest wall during a heart auscultation, that emanates from the heart or great vessels. A systolic murmur is a murmur that begins during or after the first heart sound and ends before or during the second heart sound. Certain clinical features common to all murmurs must be defined in the patient with a systolic murmur. These characteristics are intensity (loudness), frequency (pitch), quality, duration

Australia is a very densely populated city and with their kangaroos hopping about, the traffic is crazy. The European Rabbit causes great damage to agriculture and the environment because it is one of the exotic species as well. Rabbits also spread the myxoma virus that kills and affects other rabbits. Lastly, the koala. The Australian koala lives in the tops of the Eucalyptus tree and spends most of their time up there, but koalas are slowly losing their home because people are destroying their

Coevolution and Evolutionary Responses At first thought, it might seem as if everything is involved in coevolution. This assumption might be drawn due to the fact that basically every organism interacts with another organism and possibly influences their evolution in some way. However, this assumption depends entirely on one’s definition of coevolution. There are many other forms of evolutionary responses other than coevolution including: evolutionary relationships between antagonists, evolutionary

‘Spillover’ by David Quammen is most definitely one of the more unique, yet applicable novels I have read in quite some time. As someone who is interested in attending pharmacy school and ultimately dealing with disease and sickness for the rest of my life, I found it very mesmerizing to learn about how certain zoonotic diseases came to be. With that said, I’ll go right into the first chapter: “Pale Horse”. This chapter focuses on the virus now known as Hendra. It started in a place known as Brisbane

A total of 48 females with sonologically indeterminate adnexal lesions was reffered for further evaluation with MRI , of which 36 patient underwent surgical procedures and a definite histopathological diagnosis was obtained . Rest of the 12 patient was diagnosed with MRI and diagnosis was confirmed by a 6 month clinical/radiological followup. The mean age of the patient sample was 40±12yrs. In determining the origin of 38 ovarian masses , 2 uterine masses, 6 fallopian tube lesions, and 1 paraovarian

Genetic engineering is the growing science of the world and is increasingly under the spotlight over ethical issues. Is biotechnology going to save lives, rather than destroy them? and will the benefits outweigh the risks? The main problem with such questions is that we don't know the answer until we try them out. Like all sciences it is hard to predict outcomes, so far there have been more failures being told than success stories. Genetic engineering is the splitting of DNA out of an organism’s